Table: About 9.4 mln Japan retail power users switch to new entrants

Okinawa Electric Power

09/11/2018 07:56

TOKYO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - About 9.4 million retail power
customers have switched to new power providers in Japan by the
end of October, data by the national grid monitor, Organization
for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators Japan
(OCCTO), showed on Friday.
    The power sector was fully liberalised in April 2016.
    The following table shows the number of switches to new
power providers made by retail power users in each area of the
former monopolies. 
    The switches are counted by 1,000s. The percentages are the
ratio of the number of switched accounts to each utility's total
retail power accounts.   
    
            Utility      end-Oct   % of total
  Hokkaido Electric       441.1         16.0%
    Tohoku Electric       385.3          7.0%
              Tepco     4,630.8         20.2%
     Chubu Electric       965.3         12.7%
  Hokuriku Electric        58.3          4.7%
    Kansai Electric     1,933.7         19.2%
   Chugoku Electric       184.5          5.3%
   Shikoku Electric       147.0          7.6%
    Kyushu Electric       640.7         10.3%
   Okinawa Electric         2.8          0.4%
              Total     9,389.5         15.0%
    
  (Source: OCCTO, industry data)

 (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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